Friday, February 3, 2012

Friday Fictioneers

It's Friday Fictioneer time. Every Friday Madison Woods at www.madisonwoods.wordpress.com provides a photo prompt. Writers are encouraged to write a very short story (100 words). Here's mine. Give it a try. It's fun.

MEMORIES
By Beth Carter

Brad stared horrified at their home ablaze. Meanwhile, Erica honked the horn.

“Come on. Hurry!”

Brad noticed Erica’s set jaw and steely eyes. “Where are we going?”

“You’ll see.” Erica soon passed every car on the only clear road out of the inferno.

When she reached the canyon, Erica popped the trunk, pulling out hiking boots and an ax.

“What the hell are you going to do with that?”

Erika positioned a bandana over her mouth and motioned for Brad to follow her.
“We’re going to cut that tree down. When we started dating, you etched our initials in it, remember? That fire isn’t going to get everything.”

20 comments:

Yes, it's such fun and I've been able to incorporate several into novels. Love the anticipation of the prompt each Friday. I'll read yours as soon as I can. Getting JANO stuff together and must shower and head to ORA so it'll probably be tomorrow. Thanks for commenting!

That's a clever twist. My husband wrote my name next to his on a tree near his childhood home. Years later we added our first daughter's name. Sadly, it rotted before we could add our youngest's name...still, the memory survives.

Thanks for commenting, everyone. I love how this sparked memories of initials etched in trees! My husband got me the coolest necklace for Christmas that looks like tree bark (in silver!) with our initials on it. It's one of my all-time favorite gifts. Maybe that was in my self-conscious when I wrote this! These prompts are such fun. I really look forward to them.

BTW, we took a unique, fun pic while in KC last weekend. I'll post it on my blog in a couple of weeks (have plans for something else before that). It'll be a great prompt. But I don't plan to do that often. That's Madison's thing and Jan's.

That would be an interesting prompt/question, LupusAnthropos. In this case, I envisioned their home totally destroyed by the fire. That's why Erica was bound and determined to cut those initials off of the tree.

Hi Beth, sorry to be so slow getting to this. Your comment was posted in my spam file and I didn't find it right away. Your story was engaging and, as I see it, three pronged, a strong, self-reliant woman, a raging forest fire, and a romantic touch at the end. Great storytelling!Mine is here: http://bridgesareforburning.wordpress.com/

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE?

THE MISSING KEY

SANTA'S SECRET

About Me

After being a bank VP and a hospital PR Director, Beth Carter shed her suits and heels and waved bye-bye to corporate America.
She now happily writes from home in her pj's and has three children's picture books published: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE? THE MISSING KEY and SANTA'S SECRET.
Carter's debut women's fiction, THURSDAYS AT COCONUTS, will be out August 2014 by Soul Mate Publishing.
She also has short stories and poems published in several anthologies and and six-word memoirs in three six-word memoir collections alongside famous writers and celebrities.
A fan of marketing after having worked in that field for 20 years, most days you'll find the author sipping a skinny vanilla latte at Barnes & Noble if she's not at T.J. Maxx or at home writing.